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The Tigers celebrate their 73-68 victory over Oklahoma State in the championship game at the Old Spice Classic in Orlando. The victory not only avenged an earlier loss to the Cowboys, it was coach Josh Pastner’s first win over a Top-25 team in 14 tries.

The University of Memphis will be among eight teams competing in the 2014 Las Vegas Invitational at Orleans Arena next November.

Baylor, Illinois and Indiana State are also part of the field, tournament director Chris Spencer said Wednesday.

"It should be pretty good. We're excited about it," Spencer said. "I've had Memphis before in Puerto Rico (in 2008). To me, Memphis' fans are so Vegas-like, I think they're gonna love it."

The Tigers will play two non-bracketed games at home next season as part of the tournament out of a group that consists of Prairie View A&M, Stephen F. Austin, Eastern Washington and Brown.

Memphis will then travel to Las Vegas to play in the championship bracket of the tournament Nov. 28-29 with Baylor, Illinois and Indiana State.

Prairie View A&M, Stephen F. Austin, Eastern Washington and Brown will play each other in a small school championship bracket.

UCLA and Missouri were named co-champions of this year's Las Vegas Invitational. The teams didn't play each other for the championship, Spencer said, because the Bruins and Tigers, after agreeing to participate in the Invitational, scheduled a home-and-home series over the next two seasons that begins Saturday at Missouri.